Portable Apps..?

[Richard Gaskin]

Chipp Walters wrote:
> Just guessing, but even if it's non-volatile RAM, I would expect it to 
> be faster than a hard drive as typically RAM writes are significantly 
> faster than hard disk writes (think of your virtual memory cache).

Very different mechanism under the hood, from what little I know.

I was able to turn up an interview with Seagate CEO Bill Watkins which 
addresses this:

     If you want to have a very rich audio or video experience,
     no matter what you do, you're going to need a hard drive.
     Flash memory can't handle the data rates that a hard drive
     can. The data rates on flash are too slow to handle
     high-quality video and audio.

<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050927_1608_tc057.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech>


I still haven't found specifics on Flash drive speed relative to hard 
drives, but at least we have one authoritative voice to confirm what we 
see in our own experience:  Flash drives are convenient, but not 
necessarily zippy.

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